Kevin’s Blog

The worlds oil supply is about to drop and drop dramatically. In an article called Crude Awakening by Emma Davy the problem of oil supply is discussed. It’s hard to imagine how many things use oil or have oil in them. Tennis rackets,trash bags,toothpaste,tires,trains,cars,chainsaws,boilers,and lawnmowers all use oil. When oil is first pumped out of the ground by oil wells it is black goop called crude oil or petroleum. Then it is sent to oil refineries where it is turned into the oil we use. U.S government scientists predict that there are 2.6 trillion barrels of oil left on and in the earth. One barrel is equal to 42 gallons. Not all of this oil is pumped. Some of it is still in the ground. Not all of the oil left is easy picking. Oil is in frozen ground in Siberia and oil is even at the floor of the 3 kilometer deep Caspian Sea. Disappointing in my oppinion is that the U.S makes up 4% of the earths population but uses 25% of the earths oil. Paul Roberts is the author of a book called The End of Oil. Robert says,” The U.S is energy illiterate.” To be more energy efficient Americans can look more into solar wind and geothermal power. Americans can also drive cars such as the minicat that runs on compressed air. I remember once seeing a minicat on the road. It was small,it wasn’t ugly, and it seemed to work fine.

In L.A. class today every student was assigned a scene from the play on J.R.R Tolkien. some students had to work together because there were more students than scenes. Next we were handed a large strip of colored lined paper. I mention that they were colored because most of the boys in my class including me were given a pink strip. On these strips of paper we wrote the main idea of the scene that we were assigned. I myself was wrote the main idea of scene ten. Our teacher then put the scenes on the board in order with her interesting circle magnets. Each person then read his/her scene in sequence. Following this our teacher reminded us all to bring our literature book and paper home over the weekend because our meetings will be on Monday. I hope everyone brought their literature book and paper home because if you didn’t you will more than likely lose points on your grade. I apologise to anyone who was counting on this scribe because it was late by two days. 

I can’t tell you much about science today except for that we had a test. The test was on what we have learned in our notebooks so far. I highly recommend studying for this test if you missed school today. Our teacher informed every class that every week will be a new system. After the test we watched some of a movie on skeletons.

Today in L.A class we finished reading the play on Ronald or J.R.R Tolkien that we started on Wednesday. This play was about the famous author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien. I can assume by the greatness of the movies of his books most people are familiar with what he writes and now you might just read the books if you haven’t already. This play began with Tolkien as a child stepping on a tarantula and being saved. Following this incident the future author left from the desert where they were and when’t back to his home in England with his mother while his father stayed behind. Next in a tragic turn of events Tolkiens father dies and is buried before Tolkien is able to arrive at the funeral. The play then explains events that led J.R.R to being an author and how he found a lover. An event mentioned that gave the author the idea for his first book was a sentence that entered his mind, in a hole there was a hobbit. At the time he didn’t understand what a hobbit was, anything about it, or that it would become such a wonderful book. Another well known author helped Tolkiens fist book get published. The author was C.S Lewis the author of The Chronicles of Narnia. The hobbit thought of was named Bilbo Bagins a character well known by fans.

Dear Jared from America,

  Turkey has gotten it’s first president. His name isMustafa Kemal but our country has awarded him the title Kemal Ataturk(Father of the Turks). He is a military hero. World War 1 has finally ended and Kemal is showing us many new ideas and changing many things. I am sure you know of the fez, the traditional hat people here wear, kemal has changed this and we are not permitted to wear one. Instead we must were a brimmed hat. He also will not let women wear veils.( Clothing that hides the face). He has taken those things but he has shown us the Latin alphabet. Our new leader says he is trying to keep us up with what is going on in the world. He doesn’t want us to fall behind with the rest of the world as they are expanding their knowledge and technology and we are not. He hopes for us to survive the future.

                                                                                     Sincerely,

                                                                                                  Kameran    

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